Tour of Stations
13 Jun 2020Korzhakov
The Archangel is in orbit around Diaguandri AB1 right next to Ray Gateway. Jean loaded up some clothes and some items from our apartment that she wanted put on the ship, and I picked out some clothes and items myself. Then we went shopping for some special furniture pieces, new cookware, new towels and linens, everything to make our new quarters a home. We picked up enough new clothes to have a full wardrobe on the ship as well as back at our place at Ray Gateway. We are keeping our place there. It is where we will be when not on the ship, and she still has to work from her office on the station some of the time. We arrive at the hangar and the crew is just about finished loading our new purchases into the cargo hold of the python. We board the ship and she makes sure that Bella my cat is in her bed and ready to be introduced to her new home. We have allowed the crew to bring cats aboard as long as they are kept to quarters and some common areas, as it helps morale a great deal.
We land and debark the python and are greeted by Bailey and she introduces Rick, who will be giving us the tour of the rest of the Archangel spaces. Jean excuses herself as she wants to oversee the items being delivered to our quarters and getting Bella settled into her new home.
So Rick and I head back to engineering where he hands me off to Mac McClain, he shows me engineering and the tritium depot, both of which he oversees. Rick and I then head forward to the flight deck services, I meet Journee, Curtis and Lonnie, who head up the ordinance, fuels and repair sections respectively. I see the facilities for each and am impressed, the Brewer corp pulled out all the stops on these new ships.
Rick takes me to see Kenzie who is our Universal Cartographics representative. She make sure that the interface with UC works and that explorers get paid when they drop off data with us. We then head to the bow of the ship and I meet with Chang Calderon who runs the commodity market on the Archangel, now I will admit that at the moment we aren't doing any trading, he is a competent individual and implores me to open up some markets. I agree and schedule a meeting with him to make the decisions on what items we will trade and for what prices.
Rick shows me the massive cargo holds, and then takes me to see the common areas, the crew quarters and staterooms, we tour all of the dining facilities, the service areas and carrier admin offices. We finish off the tour at the one thing that I planned exclusively by myself, and that is Finnegans Pub. The ship has a full blown Irish pub and eatery for all to enjoy. When we arrive, Bailey and Jean meet us there and we share a drink and a meal together.
I am grateful for such wonderful crew and assure them that we are going to do great things with Archangel, and they are excited to get this enterprise underway. For now we will sit in Diaguandri and provision the ship until she is ready to go on her maiden adventure. The crew don't mind being just a couple of minutes away from Ray Gateway either with it's vast array of shopping and eating establishment's and nightlife.